Hlushyn () is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

(''selo'') in Zolochiv Raion,

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast in western Ukraine. The capital city, capital of the oblast is the city of Lviv. The current population is History Name The region is named ...

, in western

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. It belongs to

Brody urban hromada Brody urban hromada () is a hromada in Ukraine, in Zolochiv Raion of Lviv Oblast. The administrative center is the city of Brody. Settlements The hromada consists of 1 city (Brody Brody (, ; ; ; ) is a city in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Zo ...

, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Area of the village totals is 2.01 km² and the population of village is just about 276 persons. Local government is administered by Ponykovytska village council. From 1918 to 1939 the village was in

Tarnopol Voivodeship Tarnopol Voivodeship (; ) was an administrative region of Second Polish Republic, interwar Poland (1918–1939), created on 23 December 1920, with an area of 16,500 km2 and provincial capital in Tarnopol (now ''Ternopil'', Ukraine). The Voi ...

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. Until 18 July 2020, Hlushyn belonged to

Brody Raion Brody Raion () was a raion (district) of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was Brody. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of an administrative reform in Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Obla ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Brody Raion was merged into Zolochiv Raion.

Geography

The village is located on the right bank of the upper reaches

Styr River The Styr (; ; ) is a right tributary of the Pripyat, with a length of . Its basin area is and located in the historical region of Volhynia. The Styr begins near Brody, Lviv Oblast, then flows into Rivne Oblast, Volyn Oblast, then into Bre ...

. It is located at a distance of from the highway in

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connecting

Lviv Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of ...

with

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. Distance from the regional center

is , from the district center

Brody Brody (, ; ; ; ) is a city in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located in the valley of the upper Styr, Styr River, approximately northeast of the oblast capital, Lviv. Brody hosts the administrati ...

, and from

Religious structures

In the village there are two churches: * Church Dormition of the Theotokos (1920, wooden) ( UGCC) * Church Dormition of the Theotokos (stone) ( OCU)

People from Hlushyn

* Roman Bezpalkiv (1938 - 2009) – Ukrainian painter, Honored Art Worker of Ukraine. * Bezpalkiv MykhayloБезпальків Михайло (м.Львів)
(1939) – Ukrainian painter, Honored Art Worker of Ukraine.

References

External links

gska2.rada.gov.ua

village Hlushyn
{{Brody Raion Villages in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast